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Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. Time and attention have become one of the most precious resources, for users as well as corporate business. This book sheds light on these critical connections and how they influence not only our daily lives, but also how they exist in emerging power structures. It brings advances in the anthropological thinking about time into conversation with theorisations of media to develop an understanding of how media and time affect each other while keeping human experiences at the heart of the conversation.
“The book offers an in-depth examination of the entanglements of media and time. A significant contribution of the edited volume is the multiplicity of contributions and perspectives exploring how time regimes and pressures affect people from different parts of the world.” • Alica Repenning, Institute for Geography and Geology
Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Theorising Media and Conflict (Berghahn 2020; with Philipp Budka), and Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity (Routledge 2022), and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.
Introduction: Theorising Media and Time
Birgit Bräuchler and Nina Grønlykke Mollerup
Section 1: Time regimes
Chapter 1. Communalizing the future: Indigenous media and their expansion of calendar time across the US-Mexican border
Ingrid Kummels
Chapter 2. Temporal (de)hierarchizations: Modernist tropes and Islamic media practices
Martin Slama
Section 2: Presentism & beyond
Chapter 3. From presentism to long time: The new regime of historicity caught between the Anthropocene and longtermism
Olivier Driessens
Chapter 4. Working in the never-ending now: Presentism in digital journalism
Gudrun Rudningen
Section 3: Crisis temporalities
Chapter 5. Media, time and polycrisis in a hybrid media world
Birgit Bräuchler and John Postill
Chapter 6. Polymedia and the remediation of an Iranian conflictual past: An exile photo archive as a form of resistance
Catherine Bubatzky
Section 4: Archiving temporalities
Chapter 7. The affect of media-time: Reflections from a socio-cultural anthropologist in audio-visual archives in contemporary Cairo
Ali Atef
Chapter 8. Entangled archives and infrastructures: Tracing and reconstructing sociotechnical histories, biographies, and digital sovereignty in Northwestern Ontario, Canada
Philipp Budka
Section 5: Algorithmic time
Chapter 9. Colonizing digital time: A study of users’ temporal experience on digital platforms
Ricardo Pronzato
Chapter 10. Can the worker-as-platform-user flex?
Simiran Lalvani
Afterword: Untimely Mediation
Ann Rigney
Bibliography
Index